Thousands Rally for Lebanon Near White House

[Rose Siding]

A few thousand people, many waving the red, white and green flag of Lebanon, gathered in Lafayette Park this afternoon to show their support for the country at the center of the war between Israel and Hezbollah.

The demonstration, which comes as the Lebanese and Israeli cabinets are poised to vote on a U.N. Security resolution calling for an end to fighting in the month-old conflict, drew participants from across town, across the river and across the country.

"We came with seven buses from Ohio. We drove all night," said Julia Shearson, director of the Ohio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Cleveland.
...
The rally began at noon and speakers addressed the crowd for about 90 minutes before the demonstrators began preparing to march along Pennsylvania Avenue and 15th Street, across the Ellipse and up 17th Street, encircling the White House. President Bush is vacationing at his ranch in Texas.

Police removed a small group of counter protesters, who did not have a permit but claimed a spot in front of the White House, after they had several heated exchanges with the demonstrators. "It was for safety reasons," said Kristinn Taylor, who organized the small group to oppose the rally that he called "pro-terrorists."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/12/AR2006081200565.html

Thousands of Michigan Muslims join protest in Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON -- Busloads of Arab and Muslim Michiganians gathered in Washington, D.C. today to protest U.S. and Israeli policy in the Middle East.

Weary from long bus and car rides, hopeful that a United Nations-brokered cease-fire will end the bloodshed in Lebanon and Israel, and angry at what they said were hypocritical double-standards in U.S. policy and in media coverage of the conflict, a Michigan contingent that included at least a dozen buses arrived early today.

The travelers said they want to defend their homeland -- and in some cases their own families.

"When you see the bombs falling right in front of your face, it changes your perspective," said Mohamed Kadry, 21, of Dearborn, a college student who said he was visiting his grandparents in a northern Lebanon village when the Israeli military began its campaign on July 12.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060812/UPDATE/608120431

[NVMojo]

1. wow! thanks for posting!

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[partylessinOhio]

3. 2000 Syrian and Lebanese children protest killing children in Lebanon:

A Syrian girl holds yellow balloons matching the Hezbollah flag color during a protest against the killing of children by Israeli forces during their assault on Lebanon, on Saturday Aug. 12, 2006 in Damascus. Some 2000 Syrian and Lebanese children joined the protest in a show of support for Hezbollah.

[grassfed]

4. LOVE TO LEBANON!

A courageous country with a magnificent heritage.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. "Thousands Rally For Lieberman..."

:wtf:


:rofl:

[patdem]

6. I know..Lebanon..Lieberman..it gets so confusing sometimes...I even

read in the Editorials..."Lieberman, not Israel in Fight for Existance"...LMFAO..was too ahsmed to admit I read it wrong!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

8. Exactly.

LMFAO

[mitchtv]

10. It confused Rosie O'Donnell and Ellen also

Ellen said she was a Lebanese

[patdem]

11. LMFAO..them Lebanese beaaaches!!!

Why am I laughing while people are dying? I guess a laugh or two is not too disrepectful of the dead?

[heliarc]

14. Lebanese Beaches???

Where are the Lebanese Beachese. I've got my sun tan oil!

[heliarc]

15. deleted, reposted

[partylessinOhio]

7. Protest against the war in Lebanon at La Moneda palace, Santiago, Chile:

A Chilean peace activist holding a Palestinian flag walks in front of La Moneda government palace, during a protest against the war in Lebanon, Santiago, Chile, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006.



Turkish protesters wave Palestinian, Lebanese and red communist flags as they chant slogans during an anti-Israeli demonstration in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006.

[heliarc]

16. ¡Compatriotas Chilenos! ¡Alzan las Banderas! n/t

[mitchtv]

9. Michiganians? in the Detroit News?

I thought it ws Michiganders

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[femrap]

13. I am so glad to see so many protesting to stop

this insane destruction and murder.

Thank you to the many who made the long journey to DC to make our voices heard.

[MrPrax]

17. Thousands rally outside Israeli consulate in T.O.

Thousands rally outside Israeli consulate in T.O.

Riot police monitored a rally of several thousand people who gathered outside the Israeli consulate in Toronto on Saturday to protest Israel's offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

While the demonstrators were met with a smaller contingent of pro-Israel supporters, the march ended peacefully and there were no reports of violence.

The group demanding an immediate withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank were made up by people of various backgrounds. Protestors carried Lebanese, Palestinian and even Six Nations flags.

CTV

[ShockediSay]

18. Gotta love peaceful antagonist demonstrators in Canada

Gotta love the main thread here as well

kick & r

[MrPrax]

19. Don't Understand ? n/t

[ShockediSay]

24. They can have major passionately yet diametrically opposed views

w/out physically attacking each other. Doubt that would happen in this country; police would have to intervene after all hell broke loose, imo.

[Lurking Dem]

20. What is a Six Nations flag?

[Lurking Dem]

22. Never mind.

Google is my friend. :)

[MrPrax]

23. Mine too

Yeah -- last time First Nations' people carried their flag in one of these demos -- racists in the media thought they were Hezbollah flags...or something

If you know what to look for, then Google is a good friend...

"...For example, the Choctaws paid $1 million in 2002 to the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank of which Abramoff was a board member.

Although the tribe was led to believe it was paying for “professional services” performed as part of Scanlon’s public-relations duties, half of the million went to a company controlled by Scanlon, Capitol Campaign Strategies; $50,000 to repay a personal loan Abramoff incurred during his days as a filmmaker; and the remaining $450,000 was a donation to a charity controlled by Abramoff, the Capitol Athletic Foundation.

The great majority of the contribution to the Athletic Foundation were later passed on to the Eshkol Academy, an all-boys Orthodox Jewish school in Columbia, Maryland that Abramoff founded. The foundation also paid a monthly stipend and Jeep payments to a high-school friend of Abramoff who conducted sniper workshops for members of the Israeli Defense Force in Israel’s West Bank.

Can you imagine the sense of humiliation and betrayal the Philadelphia, Mississippi Band must have felt when they discovered their funds were being funneled to support Jewish not Native American projects??
Native Unity

How low can you go...stealing money from oppressed people to go and kill the children of another oppressed people...

[gorbal]

21. Oh those Nobel Prize winning propagandists

What to do with them?

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3286204,00.html